Cascading drop downs and XML

[papawuu1]

Hi,

I am working on a custom form and am quite new to Livecycle.

I would like to do something basic such as

country drop down (populated from an xml file)

province / state drop down (populated from xml file).

I was able to populate the country but am unsure how to proceed so that the province/state drop down is dynamically populated from an xml file as well.

Cheers

Henry

[Bibhu_Bikash_Na]

Hi Henry,

Could you please share your XML so that I can have a look at it ?

Thanks.

Bibhu.

[papawuu1]

Sure here is a sample.

country.xml is

<CountryList>

     <Country>

          <Name>CANANDA</Name>

          <Code>CAN</Code>

     </Country>

     <Country>

          <Name>United States of America    </Name>

          <Code>USA</Code>

     </Country>

</CountryList>

province.xml is

<StateList>

     <State>

          <Name>Ontario</Name>

          <Code>CAN</Code>

     </State>

     <State>

          <Name>Quebec  </Name>

          <Code>CAN</Code>

     </State>

     <State>

          <Name>Oregon</Name>

          <Code>USA</Code>

     </State>

     <State>

          <Name>New york</Name>

          <Code>USA</Code>

     </State>

</StateList>

[Bibhu_Bikash_Na]

Hi,

As far as I know you can embed only one XML into your form. Here you have two XML. More over the XML does not specify for which country you have what state/ province. You can also do what you want by the use of a linked dropdown where if you select something in one dropdown like in Country in the second dropdown(state/province) associated values will be added to the drop down.

Is this all you are after ?

Thanks.

Bibhu.

[papawuu1]

Yes that's correct. A linked drop down box. After selecting the country, I want to search the 2nd xml for all the USA tags, and enter those states that are associated into the 2nd drop down.

[Bibhu_Bikash_Na]

Hi,

Here is a link for a sample form. https://acrobat.com/#d=oE5bec4D5UqEbuKvxugZOA. I have not used XML here.

Hope it helps.

Thanks.

Bibhu.